I feel like I shouldn't straight up suggest what I think would be best for the server, I wanna hear other's opinions on certain things about combat before making a suggestion because I honestly have no clue what people nowadays think about combat. I bet nothing is gonna change just because what I think about stuff but if the whole community can say what they want about this kind of stuff it might actually do something and possibly make the server more enjoyable. If you have something that you would like to get changed in combat feel free to reply on this post and I can add it to the poll.

I agree that the old combat system was better in most ways, and that's not nostalgia since I think the server has improved generally overall from what it was before. The combat now is more clunky, number based and less strategic than before (even if it is less open to exploits).

Take the cooldown on state switches as an example, this did patch up exploits but at the cost of making the whole combat and driving system clunkier, less smooth and less responsive. It might have just been better to leave it how it was and deal with those abusing it through the complaints subforum.

Good movement separated good players from the great and it took a long time to learn how to maintain complete accuracy while rapidly moving directions, now you can barely move and swap directions at all while firing. I'm sure there was a good reason to add the change, but it ended up removing a whole element of skill from combat while also making it feel a lot less smooth and fluid.

Weapon damages got lowered and the TTK became a lot longer, and it's understandable why this was changed. Yet it made the guns feel weak, the combat got more awkward and air support more overpowered. Since pells go a lot faster than before and mobile spawns are a thing now it doesn't make a lot of sense to have such low player-to-player damage.

Grapple hooks make it too easy to bridge a distance gap and remove the need for tactics and positioning, it's difficult to contest something from long range with a Sniper if the enemies can get to you in only a few seconds, tagging them so they can't grapple isn't always possible either. (Maybe they could be disabled within a certain radius of missions and caps rather than flat out removing them)

Inaccuracy damage decrease after dropping from a plane makes it difficult to contest missions, especially MVs since you have to get close immediately, as the defending faction have an inbuilt advantage.

Et cetera.

Overall I think that the combat and movement system of yesteryear is a lot better than the one that exists today. The onus for the changes that got implemented are totally understandable and in good will but they ended up making the game combat on the server feel stilted, clumsy and unresponsive. The combat on RLS felt completely unique before and unlike any other game; the fighting was fast and accuracy was important but so was logical thinking and being able to improvise. It had a higher skill ceiling and really rewarded players who put time into mastering the game.

Among suggested variants the only thing I disagree with is p3. I find current system, which makes all guns kinda useful, better than previous where there were definite favourites (AR, SO). But as much as I dislike weapon disbalance, I can admit that sometimes previous system worked. Perhaps additional work with guns should be done.Regarding every else suggestion - I am fully agree with reverting AS update, returning old combat system and making Sniper Rifles more deadly. May be not 2 shot - tho it was actually fine for me - but deadly and handy to use enough to make sniping fun again.Also, I want to state one thing. Grapple hook's lack was a feature of RLS for more than 2 years - and with returning it things got a bit messy. For me it's better to have some people stranged in woods than allowing everyone to fly like spider man across panau. That may sound radical, but I [tip=Don't crucify me pls]suggest to remove Grapple Hook at all[/tip].

NeoSacratif wrote:Among suggested variants the only thing I disagree with is p3. I find current system, which makes all guns kinda useful, better than previous where there were definite favourites (AR, SO). But as much as I dislike weapon disbalance, I can admit that sometimes previous system worked. Perhaps additional work with guns should be done.Regarding every else suggestion - I am fully agree with reverting AS update, returning old combat system and making Sniper Rifles more deadly. May be not 2 shot - tho it was actually fine for me - but deadly and handy to use enough to make sniping fun again.Also, I want to state one thing. Grapple hook's lack was a feature of RLS for more than 2 years - and with returning it things got a bit messy. For me it's better to have some people stranged in woods than allowing everyone to fly like spider man across panau. That may sound radical, but I [tip=Don't crucify me pls]suggest to remove Grapple Hook at all[/tip].

Added that grappling hook thing in the poll and I agree with what you said, it should be removed. It makes everything too easy.

There went all the poll answers when I edited it btw, rest in peace, dont think that keeri really cares about it anyway

I'm not gonna lie, the "new" combat system which isn't so new anymore, where u move slow cant run cant jump etc was the reason I stopped playing entirely, and I ended up trying to find fun in trolling and flaming back a few years ago when it was first implemented. I do partly blame this update for my ban as well, but that's another cup of tea.

I tried coming back to the server after getting unbanned, but I just realised every time I logged on and played 5/10 minutes, I just can't play this game this way, and I logout disappointed.

To sum it up, each to their own, but at least I won't be playing this server with this combat, I just won't, I got better things to do, than not having fun.

"nobody asked you to play the server yadayada yea fuck off" yea whatever

Levander Gale wrote:I'm not gonna lie, the "new" combat system which isn't so new anymore, where u move slow cant run cant jump etc was the reason I stopped playing entirely, and I ended up trying to find fun in trolling and flaming back a few years ago when it was first implemented. I do partly blame this update for my ban as well, but that's another cup of tea.

I tried coming back to the server after getting unbanned, but I just realised every time I logged on and played 5/10 minutes, I just can't play this game this way, and I logout disappointed.

To sum it up, each to their own, but at least I won't be playing this server with this combat, I just won't, I got better things to do, than not having fun.

"nobody asked you to play the server yadayada yea fuck off" yea whatever

I dont think it would take a major rework to make this really good. Some guns could use a bit less auto aim, especially under sustained fire (i believe making autoaim go away over time as you spray would be a good idea), but other than that, once you get used to the fact that you can't sprint and look around quickly at once, it is really fun.

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